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Mortmain Hall

$26.24

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November 26, 2024

Narrator Leighton Pugh

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Next in the Rachel Savernake series comes Mortmain Hall, perfect for fans of the Golden Age of mystery and readers of Anthony Horowitz and Sherry Thomas.

Framed for murder and with nowhere to go, Jacob Flint turns to an eclectic group of people on a remote estate to save him…

1930. A chilling encounter on London's Necropolis Railway leads to murder, and a man escapes the gallows after a witness gives sensational evidence. After this string of strange, fatal events, journalist Jacob Flint discovers that he has been framed for murder. To save himself, he flees to Mortmain Hall, a remote estate on the northern coast. There, an eccentric female criminologist hosts a gathering of eclectic people who have all escaped miscarriages of cruel justice. This strange group puts Jacob a little on edge, but they may be his only hope to clear his name.

When a body is found beneath the cliffs near the house, it seems this gathering might be an ingenious plot to get away with murder. Are these eccentrics victims or are they orchestrators of the great deception? Jacob must now set out to uncover the labyrinthine secrets within Mortmain Hall, alongside Rachel Savernake, a woman whose relentless quest for the truth might just bring down the British establishment...

Other books in the Rachel Savernake Golden Age Mysteries Series:

Gallows Court (Book 1)

Mortmain Hall (Book 2)

The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge (Book 3)

The House on Graveyard Lane (Book 4)

Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime writer and critic. His ground-breaking study of the genre between the wars, The Golden Age of Murder, won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating, and Macavity awards, and his book The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books has been nominated for five awards. He has edited over thirty anthologies and published over a dozen books. The archivist of both the Crime Writers' Association and the Detection Club, he is the current chair of the CWA.

Leighton Pugh is an Earphones award-winning audiobook narrator and a professional actor who trained at LAMDA, after studying modern languages at Queen's College, Oxford. His radio work includes the BBC Radio 4 plays Murder by the Book and Scenes from Provincial Life and the BBC Radio 3 documentary The Tragical Adventure of Heinrich von Kleist.

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Reviews

[A] triumph, from its tantalizing opening, in which an unnamed dying man begins to explain an unspecified perfect crime, through its scrupulously fair final reveal...impressively channels Agatha Christie. Expand reviews
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